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The appellant was born in 1963 and is a male citizen of Sudan. He appealed to the First-tier Tribunal against a decision of the respondent, dated 25 April 2019, to refuse his human rights claim having made, on the same date, a deportation order. The First-tier Tribunal, in a decision promulgated on 11 December 2019, dismissed the appeal. The appellant now appeals, with permission, to the Upper Tribunal.
Ms Radford of Counsel has drafted not only the appellant's response to the April 2020 directions but also a witness statement containing her statement of truth concerning events at the First-tier Tribunal hearing before Judge Webb on 8 November 2019. The accuracy of that statement has not been challenged by the respondent and I accept the contents as true and accurate.
There will need to be a hearing de novo before the First-tier Tribunal; given the nature of the error of law in this instance and the need for a new fact-finding exercise, it is not appropriate for the appeal to remain in the Upper Tribunal.
The decision of the First-tier Tribunal is set aside. None of the findings of fact shall stand. The appeal is returned to the First-tier Tribunal for that Tribunal to remake the decision following a hearing de novo.
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